Losing your passport while traveling is a nightmare, especially if you’re on a business trip or a short vacation. Running through your mind is surely if you can get a new passport in time for you flight home. Not only would damaging or losing it upend your travel plans, but it’s pricey to replace a …
As a travel enthusiast, I’ve always sought ways to capture my best travel moments and freeze them in time. As an avid collector of ticket stubs and tour brochures, I even want those mundane details preserved—the name of that hilarious taxi driver who shuttled me from the airport to the city is a worthy contender …
Before I left to travel the world in 2008, I knew I would need a way to make packing easier and more efficient. I was only carrying a 65L backpack on my yearlong trip, so I needed a way to both organize my belongings and maximize space. That’s when I discovered packing cubes. I hadn’t …
This FAQ is an addendum to the 40,000+ words of questions and answers linked from the How to Travel the World page. These are the smaller topics that might niggle at your mind. We’re not talking flights, itineraries, and accommodation. No, those are the biggies. These are things like when and how to file your …
Finding flights is among the more stressful aspects of planning world travel. When you press purchase on that flight, it represents not only your trip, but hundreds (thousands?!) of dollars, too. There is no fool-proof way to ensure that you always find the lowest price for your flight, but there are certainly tactics and opportunities to …
You’re planning an around the world trip. Congrats! My one-year trip turned into a decade of wandering and it transformed my life. My own one-year trip itinerary took me through 15 countries and countless experiences—but narrowing down my dream countries to just 15 was hard. After so many years on the road—and after several round …
Traveling with debt is possible—I traveled the world for 15 years and for the first handful of years I was paying off a combination of credit card and student loan debt. To travel while in debt, I just had to assess my travel budget and then factor in a monthly debt payment on top of …
Those who read this blog regularly know that my family background is modest, at best. Instead of that trust fund image many have for world travelers, I attended college on merit-based scholarships. When I decided that I wanted to live a life of travel, instead of counting on help from family, I budgeted for my round the …